Flute Choir Camp

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Challenge yourself in a fun and instructional week for players of all instruments in the flute family. Enjoy the camaraderie of fellow flutists while rehearsing in a flute choir, attending repertoire-reading sessions and collaborating with others in chamber music duos, trios and quartets.

Challenge yourself in a fun and instructional week for players of all instruments in the flute family. Enjoy the camaraderie of fellow flutists while rehearsing in a flute choir, attending repertoire reading sessions, and collaborating with others in chamber music duos, trios and quartets. Jane Berkner, Flute Choir Camp Director, will provide guidance during the camp in embouchure flexibility, pitch, practice routines, and tips on playing or purchasing big flutes. Flute choir reading sessions with guest artists, Kelly Via and Jonathan Cohen, will highlight the 2015 camp. A flute choir performance on campus, a flute fair with Robert Johnson of Flute Specialists, and an informal performance of duos, trios and quartets will round out the experience.

9 – 11:30 a.m.Flute Fair with Robert Johnson from Flute Specialists: Mallory-Towsley Great RoomParticipants will have the opportunity to try new flutes and related equipment, and Robert Johnson will be available to work on instruments.

Please note that this tentative daily schedule is subject to change before the first day of the event.

Jonathan Cohen is the composer of many works for flute choir, including “Flutes and Vegetables” and “Piccolos in the Pub”. An electrical engineer by vocation, he plays flute in community bands and flute ensembles, and is quite a talented composer. He will join us for the week, playing his contrabass flute, “Tiny” in flute choir rehearsals and leading an afternoon session on arranging for the flute choir. We will devote one of our flute choir reading sessions to music that Jonathan has written.

Kelly Via is the piccoloist with the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and Macon Symphony Orchestra. His arrangements and compositions for flute choir have been named as winners in National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competitions. He conducted the NFA National High School Flute Choir in 2008, and was NFA Flute Choir Coordinator from 2007 to 2012. He has served as guest conductor for flute choirs in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia. At Flute Camp, Kelly will lead a morning reading session of his compositions and arrangements and an afternoon session on playing the piccolo.

This is the sixth year that Jane Berkner has been Director of Flute Choir Camp, creating and overseeing five and a half days of rehearsals, reading sessions and afternoon classes. Jane has been flute professor at The University of Akron and Ashland University and Director of the Northeastern Ohio Flute Association’s Flute Ensembles. She was the National Flute Association’s High School Flute Choir Coordinator from 2001-2006. She took The University of Akron Flute Choir on a tour of Italy in 2010, and they were invited to play for NFA conventions in Pittsburgh and Chicago.